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Lately we’ve caught up on some of the films that we’ve not watched over the last year – oddly our film watching went down when baby arrived, not sure why or how – so here’s my brief summary of the last few.

District 9 was entertaining. If it had higher messages in it that I was meant to take away and reflect on, then I didn’t really get them. I was satisified with the ending of the film, and pretty much everything tied itself up nicely, although the reason why the fuel had the effect that it did I think was a tad overlooked. Also as the film reached its climax I found it getting steadily more and more fantastical. I mean, it was never 100% believable but I did feel that I was working harder to suspend disbelief at the end than the start. Something like 7/10 for this.

Iron Man was an amusing jaunt. I’m not familiar with the comic character so I have no idea how “true” an adapation it was, or anything like that, but I found it moved along at a good pace, and I liked the light moments of comedy and the character interaction. The downside with this film was that it was entirely predictable from start to finish. Also 7/10 for this one I think.

Lastly for now, we had Cloverfield. A very short film this one, I thought, though that’s probably for the best as if it had been longer I suspect that parts of it would have dragged, whereas at it’s current length the pace is good, and the story is moving forward quickly enough to maintain the sense of panic and disorder felt by the characters. I enjoyed the perspective, and the humour of the characterisation. Of course due to the way the story is presented we sort-of already knew the ending at the start, but the journey was entertaining and pulled me in nicely. I’d say 8/10 for this.